But Trump set up that address with extensive new complaints about the latest disastrous week of coverage and reports of campaign chaos. Frustratingly for Republicans, Trump's missteps have overshadowed difficult news for Clinton: The new release of 44 previously-unreleased email exchanges Clinton had while at the State Department. The New York Times on Sunday catalogued a culture of crisis inside the Trump campaign. Given that, Trump's allies set out Sunday to bat down bad publicity and warn people not to write Trump off. Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort criticized the news media for not focusing on what otherwise would have been a substantive week of dueling economic speeches from Trump and Clinton.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 14, 2016 06:56 UTC